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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Join Magic: The Gathering Head Designer Mark Rosewater as he shares stories, insights, and more while driving to work. Listen and learn more about how Magic is made!

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31:32

#1138: Lessons Learned – Phyrexia: All Will Be One

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/05/17

This podcast is another in my "Lessons Learned" series where I talk about design lessons from sets I led or co-led. This episode is about the design of Phyrexia: All Will Be One.

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30:51

#1137: Designing Typal Cards

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/05/17

In this episode, I talk about how we design typal cards (i.e., cards that mechanically care about creature types).

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30:40

#1136: Being a Team Lead

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/05/10

What exactly is a lead designer responsible for? In this podcast, I walk through what the lead designers do during exploratory design, vision design, set design, and play design.

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35:34

#1135: Monocolor Design

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/05/10

In this podcast, I talk about how we design monocolor themes for both Constructed and Limited.

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30:53

#1134: Alphabet

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/05/03

In this podcast, I talk about how R&D uses the alphabet to design Magic cards. I walk through the alphabet, explaining how we use each letter.

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31:05

#1133: Naming Sets with Ari Zirulnik

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/05/03

In this podcast, I sit down with Ari Zirulnik to talk about how we name Magic sets.

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32:14

#1132: Sixth Edition Rules

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/04/26

Back in 1999, the Magic rules had the biggest change in the history of the game in conjunction with the release of Sixth Edition. In this podcast, I walk through the major changes that happened.

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32:07

#1131: Magic Stories about My Dad

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/04/26

My father, Gene Rosewater, died on April 17. In this podcast, I share stories about him that relate to Magic. Warning: This one's a bit of a tear-jerker.

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33:45

#1130: A/B Mechanics

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/04/19

A/B mechanics are mechanics that require a separate subset of cards to work (such as madness requiring cards that make you discard). In this episode, I talk about how we design A/B mechanics, the challenges of making them, and the history of some famous A/B mechanics.

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31:49

#1129: The Question

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/04/19

Back in 2018, we ran the Great Designer Search 3 (GDS3). Part of that event was a multiple-choice test many contestants took to qualify for the next part of the qualification. One question from that test, question number 28, proved to be controversial. The topic recently returned to social media, so I decided to record a podcast about it. I talk about the history of the GDSs, the reasons why there's a multiple-choice test, and get into the specifics of question 28.

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29:26

#1128: Outlaws of Thunder Junction Play Design with...

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/04/12

In this podcast, I sit down with Outlaws of Thunder Junction Lead Play Designer Jadine Klomparens to talk about the play design of the set.

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30:25

#1127: Same But Different

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/04/12

In this podcast, I talk about a concept I learned from my days in Hollywood and how I apply it to Magic design.

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41:47

#1126: Outlaws of Thunder Junction Set Design with...

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/04/05

In this podcast, I sit down with Dave Humpherys, set design lead for Outlaws of Thunder Junction, to talk about the set design of the latest expansion.

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30:13

#1125: Mercenaries

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/04/05

In honor of Outlaws of Thunder Junction, I did a card-by-card design podcast on cards with creature type Mercenary.

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30:59

#1124: Outlaws of Thunder Junction Vision Design

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/03/29

In this podcast, I talk about the early design of Outlaws of Thunder Junction.

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40:06

#1123: Every Set

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/03/29

Before I get into Outlaws of Thunder Junction, I see if I can name every non-core expansion set in order with a bit of trivia about each one.

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30:47

#1122: Top 20 Evergreen Mechanics, Part 2

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/03/22

During my MagicCon: Chicago talk where I listed my top 20 mechanics of all time, I also showed a slide for my top 20 evergreen mechanics and said that one day, I'd do a podcast on it. Today is that day. This is part two of two.

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30:12

#1121: Top 20 Evergreen Mechanics, Part 1

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/03/22

During my MagicCon: Chicago talk where I listed my top 20 mechanics of all time, I also showed a slide for my top 20 evergreen mechanics and said that one day, I'd do a podcast on it. Today is that day. This is part one of two.

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30:28

#1120: The Early Days of Magic

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/03/15

In this podcast, I explain what it was like to play Magic in 1993.

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36:43

#1119: The Elephant in Boots Problem

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast ·

2024/03/15

In this podcast, I share what Magic R&D refers to as the "elephant in boots" problems and how we work to solve it.

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